Browsing: Enviroment

A growing number of Wisconsin communities are choosing to act against considerable economic interest and sit out the data center revolution.

Millions of dollars have been spent on the aim to build 80 charging stations for electric vehicles at gas stations, hotels, and other venues across Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature.

Momentum is growing to end vehicle emissions testing programs in several states, including Wisconsin.

The most recent Marquette Law School poll shows public opinion turning against data centers.

Wisconsin’s average ozone levels declined in the most recent three-year period for which data are available, though some monitoring sites still exceed federal limits.

Impacts are minimal in comparison to what might have occurred Seldom if ever conceded by many critics of the planned $15 billion 672-acre data center under way in…

The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday passed a bill that would remove the state’s rapidly expanding and aggressive gray wolf population from the endangered species list.

While Christmases in Milwaukee have felt warm in recent years, they’re no warmer, on average, than they were in the 1940s, data from the Wisconsin State Climatology office show.

Assembly Democrats intend to introduce a bill to grant Devil’s Lake State Park legal rights, as if it weren’t a set of inanimate rocks, water, trees and lichens.

The biggest data centers planned for Wisconsin are not a threat to local water systems or to Lake Michigan — a fact opponents either can’t believe or won’t admit.

State Rep. Joy Goeben and state Sen. Steve Nass have introduced a bill that would prohibit local governments from enacting a “rights of nature” ordinance.

Fifteen kids — one only eight years old — just filed a lawsuit in Dane County, claiming that they are particularly vulnerable to air pollution and fossil fuel-caused climate change.

As a Wisconsin stewardship program is up for renewal, northern counties’ budgets, economies are squeezed by how much land already is taken out of equation

Predictions of rising Wisconsin power demand are driven by plans for data centers, the electricity-gulping organs of the online economy.

The population of wolves roaming Wisconsin’s forests and farmlands exceeded 1,000 in 2023, data from the latest Department of Natural Resources wolf monitoring report show.

The owner of a now-shuttered nuclear power plant near Kewaunee announced it was seeking a license that could let it reopen the plant.

Spent uranium isn’t the plant owners’ responsibility because Uncle Sam bigfooted his way into the matter in 1982, then accomplished nothing.

Rep. David Steffen and Sen. Julian Bradley are circulating a joint resolution supporting expansion of nuclear energy production in Wisconsin.

Port Washington’s announcement of another billion-dollar data center project in southeastern Wisconsin is focusing attention on the challenge of meeting the voracious energy needs of this new economic opportunity.